David Walter

UC-AFT has filed a cease and desist letter against the University of California Office of the President regarding the university’s offer to compensate Unit 18 members who volunteer for “extra grading work at the end of the semester.” 

As of Dec. 31, Walter will have spent six years of his life as a UC Berkeley lecturer, yet every semester could be his last.

While the difference between a professor and a lecturer may just be their title, that title determines their salary, job stability and livelihood.

The University Council-American Federation of Teachers, or UC-AFT, organized rallies Oct. 13 and Oct. 14 in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union building at UC Berkeley calling for job security and fair salaries. 

The University Council-American Federation of Teachers, or UC-AFT, presented its compensation proposal and answered questions from UC negotiators about their job stability proposal at a bargaining session Jan. 21.

During its Wednesday bargaining session with the University Council-American Federation of Teachers, or UC-AFT, a union that represents librarians and non-Senate faculty, the UC Office of the President put forth a proposal on job stability, which UC-AFT President Mia McIver deemed “the first step” toward negotiating a contract that UC lecturers will accept.

While 2020 has left many unemployed and without a steady source of income, UC lecturers find themselves without contracts, an issue that was discussed at the University Council-American Federation of Teachers, or UC-AFT, faculty bargaining session Tuesday.